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About Google Book Search Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at |http: //books .google .com/I 2 IN MEMORIAM Department of Johns Hopkins University in 1889, Osier became Pro- fessor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine of that institution and at the same time Physician in Chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he remained until the spring of 1905. In the fall of 1904 he had re- ceived and accepted a call from Oxford to become Regius Professor of Medicine. In reply to the author's congratulation on his receiving this great distinction, he wrote: Naturally, I am very loath to leave America where I have been so well treated and where I have so many warm friends, but it really is an act of self-preservation. I could not possibly stand for very long the high pressure of my present life. The position is almost purely academic, and I will have an abundance of time for my literary work. When Osier left America a dinner was given to him the memory of which will be forever cherished by those who were present. He was eulogized as a teacher, clinician, consultant and author by such men as Tyson, Shq)ard, Wilson, Welch, Jacobi, and Weir Mitchell. Osier's reply was full of expressions of gratitude and appreciation. Among other things he said. Why so much happiness has come to me I know not. But this I know, that I have not deserved more than others, and yet a very rich abundance of it has been vouchsafed to me. I have been singularly happy in my friends, and for that I say " God be praised." I have had exceptional happiness in the profession of my choice, and I owe all of this to you. ... I have been happy, too, in the public among whom I worked — Chappy in my own and in Canada, happy here among you in the country of my adoption. His venerable mother and his wife were seated in one of the boxes, and turning a grateful glance upward, he said, Of the greatest of all happiness I cannot speak — of my home. Many of you know it, and that is enough. ... I have had three personal ideals. One, to do the day's work well and not to bother about to-morrow. The second ideal has been to act the Golden Rule, as far as in me lay, towards my professional brethren and towards the patients committed to my care. The third has been to cultivate such a measure of equanimity as would enable me to bear success with humility, the affection of my friends without pride, and to be ready when the day of sorrow and grief came to meet it with the courage befitting a man. •The honors bestowed upon Osier are almost too numerous to recount. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from McGill Universily in 4 IN MEMORIAM In November, 1919, Osier contracted pneumonia but he himself hoped for an early recovery, and on Christmas day he sent a typical cheerful telegram to Johns Hopkins Hospital, announcing that he was making a good fight. Four days later he died. Perhaps he only sent that message to give Christmas cheer to his many friends on this side of the Atlantic. He must have realized the seriousness of his condition, for after his death the following note, dated December 23, 1919, was found among his effects: *'Dear friends, the harbor is nearly reached, after a splendid voyage with such companions all the way; and my boy waiting for me.'' How the soul of this great man is revealed in these simple words! Cheerfulness, an unbounded capacity for work, a devotion to the highest ideals of medicine and himianity, a marvelous scholarship, loyalty to his friends and kindliness to the himiblest of the hiunble, were the outstanding characteristics of Sir William Osier. His lifelong friend. Prof. William H. Welch, of Baltimore, well said of him, "To Osier noth- ing human was foreign. His home both in Baltimore and Oxford was a center of hospitality." Those who had the rare privilege to walk with Professor Osier through the medical wards who had the good fortune to have been present at some of his receptions to students, will never forget the human side of his character. Osier's loyalty to his friends was indeed genuine, particularly when they were in need or in distress, as the author has reason to remember with undying gratitude. Osier was still smarting under the ignominious slan- der manufactured by a sensational news-seeking press which had taken seriously a jocular remark he had made on the subject of eutanasia when as a result of a statement I had occasion to make at a meeting of our Na- tional Tuberculosis Association I had to suffer a similar experience to that of the great Osier. During a discussion on the use of morphine in tuber- culosis I ventured to say that in my opinion it was an almost indispensa- ble remedy to assuage pain in the hopelessly ill consiunptive. My state- ments were apparently approved by all present for it is well known that by the judicious administration of morphine we not only make the patient more comfortable but in reality prolong life. Yet, to the amazement of nearly everybody who heard me, among whom were the leading authori- ties on tuberculosis in this coimtry, I was denoimced the following morn- ing in a Philadelphia paper as having openly favored the administration of enough morphine to hopelessly ill tuberculous patients to end their lives. As is usual with such sensational so-called news items, this state- ment quickly made the rounds of the American and European press. WILLIAM OSLER 7 Pneumonic Phthisis. Montreal General Hospital Report, 1880, i, 295-297. Clinical Lecture on a Case of Fibroid Phthisis. Canada Medical and Surgical Journal, •Montreal, 1880-1881, ix, 641-650. Cestode Tuberculosis. A Successful Experiment in Producing it in a Calf. American Vet- erinary Review, N. Y., 1882-1883, vi, 6^10. Pulsating Pleurisy. Transactions Association American Physicians, Phila., 1888, iii, 330-338. The Anatomical Tubercle. Montreal Medical Journal, 188^-1889, xvii, 418. Note on Endocarditis in Phthisis. Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, Bait, ^890^ ii, 62^^ Tubercular Peritonitis; General Considerations; Tubercular Abdominal Tumors; Curability. Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, 1890, ii, 67-113. Diagnosis of Tuberculous Broncho-pneumonia in Children. Archives of Pediatrics, Phila., 1891, viii, 805-829. Acute Phthisis; Erosion of a Large Branch of the Pulmonary Artery; Sudden Fatal Haemop- tysis. Transactions Pathological Society, Phila., 1891, xiv, 169. Report on the Koch Treatment in Tuberculosis. Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, Bait, 1891, ii, 7-14. The HeaHng of Tuberculosis. Oimatologist, Phila., 1892, ii, 149-153. Tuberculous Pericarditis. American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Phila., 1893, 20-27. Cases of Sub-phrenic Abscess. Transactioru Association American Physicians, Phila., 1893, 257-267. Profound Toxemia with Slight Tuberculous Lesions. Medical News, Phila., 1893, Ixiii, 632. Notes on Tuberculosis in Children. Archives of Pediatrics, N. Y., 1893, x, 979-986. Tuberculosis. In American Textbook of Diseases of Children (Starr), Phila., 1894, 94-126. In his collected reprints, 1892-1897, iii, no. 134. Toxaemia in Tuberculosis. Practitioner, London, 1894, iii, 26-30. The Registration of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Philadelphia Polylinic, 1894, 65. Pleuro-peritoneal Tuberculosis. Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, Bait., 1896, vii, 79. Ephemerides, 1895: XT. Is the Coin Sound Distinctive of Pneumothorax? Montreal Med' ical Journal, 1895-1896, xxiv, 518-969. Tuberculosis. System of the Practice of Medicine (Loomis), N. Y. and Phila., 1897, i, 731-848. Tuberculosis. American Text-Book of Diseases of Children (Starr), 2. ed., Phila., 1898, 270-302. The Preventive and Remedial Treatment of Tuberculosis (Discussion). British Medical Journal, London, 1899, ii, 1155. The Home Treatment of Consumption. Maryland Medical Journal, Bait, 1900, 8-12. On the Study of Tuberculosis. Philadelphia Medical Journal, 1900, vi, 1029-1030. The Home in its Relation to the Tuberculosis Problem. Medical News, N. Y., 1903, 1105- 1110. Also in: Sanitarian, N. Y., 1904, 322-336. Also: Canada Lancet, Toronto, 1904-1905, 600-612. Also: Revue internatianale de la tuberculose, Paris, 1905, vii, 403-413. The **Phthisiologia" of Richard Morton, M D. Medic jI Library and Historical Journal, Brooklyn, 1904, ii, 1-7. Acute Tuberculous Pneumonia. Brooklyn Medical Journal, 1905, xix, 57-61. Osier's Textbook on the Principles and Practice of Medicine; Designed for the Use of Prac- titioners and Students of Medicine, of which 8 editions have appeared, containing valuable chapters on Tuberculosis. This book has been translated into French, German and Chinese. Edward L. Trudeau. An Appreciation. Journal of the Outdoor Life, 1910, vii, 162. Men and Books: VII, Letters of Laennec. Canadian Medical Association Journal, Toronto, 1912, ii, 247-248. 8 IN MEMORIAM Men and Books: XI, George Bodington Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1912, 526-527. Bacilli and Bullets: An Address to the Officers and Men in the Camps at Chum. British Medical Journal^ London, 1914, ii, 569;j-570. A Tribute to Dr. Edward L. Trudeau: A Medical Pioneer. American Medicine, Burling- ton, Vt., and N. Y., 1915, n.s., x, 20. An Address on the Tuberculous Soldier. Lancet ^ London, 1916, 220-221. Graduated Exercise in Prognosis. Lancet^ London, 1918, 1, 231.